Nutty Mads - Beyond Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 2:36 PM Hey Zeta, I dig em, and thanks for posting the info and pics. I've liked that genre since I was a kid, but actually it's a pretty big can of worms to open on TC. So at least speaking personally that's why I didn't respond before, even though I enjoyed the info! I think I'd heard about Nutty Mads a little bit here and there, but was never as conscious of them as the whole Weird-Ohs and Silly Surfers series. Those are so well-known because of the tie-in records with Gary Usher music and all that. I'm sure you know about those, but here's a couple images just for general purposes. Never heard the claim before that Weird-Ohs were copycats of the Nutty Mads. I would've guessed the other way around. But those LPs are from 64 I think, and also back then, everybody was "borrowing" ideas pretty freely. Like the story that Ed Roth's Rat Fink is actually borrowed (adapted?) from Stanley Mouse's original character drawings. Don't mean to sidetrack the thread by talking about the Weird-Ohs. But in case it's of interest, Bill Campbell was the illustrator for that series, and Illustration magazine did a nice story on him with a bunch of images, in their issue #12. -Randy

Hey Zeta,
I dig em, and thanks for posting the info and pics. I've liked that genre since I was a kid, but actually it's a pretty big can of worms to open on TC. So at least speaking personally that's why I didn't respond before, even though I enjoyed the info!

I think I'd heard about Nutty Mads a little bit here and there, but was never as conscious of them as the whole Weird-Ohs and Silly Surfers series. Those are so well-known because of the tie-in records with Gary Usher music and all that. I'm sure you know about those, but here's a couple images just for general purposes.

Never heard the claim before that Weird-Ohs were copycats of the Nutty Mads. I would've guessed the other way around. But those LPs are from 64 I think, and also back then, everybody was "borrowing" ideas pretty freely. Like the story that Ed Roth's Rat Fink is actually borrowed (adapted?) from Stanley Mouse's original character drawings.

Don't mean to sidetrack the thread by talking about the Weird-Ohs. But in case it's of interest, Bill Campbell was the illustrator for that series, and Illustration magazine did a nice story on him with a bunch of images, in their issue #12.

-Randy

Post #516891 by aquarj on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 2:36 PM